Modelos Para Armar: An Abbreviated Tour

MODELOS PARA ARMAR Pensar Latinoamérica desde la Colección MUSAC,

 featuring works by Carlos Amorales , Alexander Apóstol, Julieta Aranda, AVAF, Fernando Bryce, Erick Beltrán, Iñaki Bonillas, Tania Bruguera, François Bucher, Luís Camnitzer, Raimond Chaves, José Damasceno, Dr. Lakra, Matías Duville, Sandra Gamarra, Carlos Garaicoa, Mario García Torres, Diango Hernández, Juan Fernando Herrán, Federico Herrero, María Teresa Hincapié, Leonilson, Jorge Macchi, Gilda Mantilla, Gilda Mantilla y Raimond Chaves, Teresa Margolles, Hernán Marina, Ana Mendieta, Mujeres Creando, Óscar Muñoz, Rivane Neuenschwander, Damián Ortega, Álvaro Oyarzun, Nicolás París, Jorge Pineda, Caio Reisewitz, Rosângela Renno, Pedro Reyes, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Martín Sastre, Melanie Smith y Rafael Ortega, Valeska Soares, Javier Téllez, Meyer Vaisman , Carla Zaccagnini, 

and 

curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio, María Inés Rodríguez, Octavio Zaya 

opened this past weekend at MUSAC. 

Angelidakis studio was responsible for the layout of the exhibition, 

continuing our ongoing project of making architecture with exhibition walls.  

Damien Ortega y the great Meyer Vaisman

the spaces starts without any architectural intervention, since the works themselves offer a brief panorama of Model Kits: The Favela, The City, the Industry, the Car, the Metaphysical, the Labyrinth.

Jorge Macchi 

Pedro Reyes

followed by Oscar Munoz

leading through awkward spaces
 

to a bright oval room for Ana Mendietas' simulated violence

walls pushed to reveal openings

Fernando Bryce's Kolonial Post installed in a jungle of column walls

Eric Beltran

up a path between small rooms that leads to the smallest superwhite room

 containing Leonnilsons' Sua montanha interior protetora and 3 more fantastic works

from a little window you can see Valeska Soares

and a great piece by Carla Zachagnini that involves a series of stamps made from texts on Latin America, which have appeared in the local press. Everybody at Musac will use these stamps over the coming months to infiltrate the piece out to the world.

stepping outside to Federico Herrero's Patio (Musac)

Alvaro Oyarzun and Rivane Neuenschwander

leading to white room in a jungle 

Raimond Chaves y Gilda Mantilla with plants coming in from the outside

great Avaf outside

which is just another inside

Diango Hernandez

Matias Duville (observed by Mr Bryce and Mr Apostol)

low ceiling reading rooms

  and back to the beginning of 

Meyer Vaisman's Vedre por fuera, rojo por dentro (el armario del mis padres)

Some Model Kits (Modelos under construction)

A Jungle under wraps

 Framed by a window

framed by a space, within a space

doors that lead to doors through other doors

 within spaces of multiple doors

between real walls and fake walls

a machine builds a small mountain

that eventually becomes a nighttime scene

Models Para Armar opens at MUSAC on Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Recent Writings

Here's the brand new issue of PINUP featuring the always great Charles Renfro, Mr Herzog and very cool Martino Gamber amongst others.

I contributed a piece titled Greek Ruins, on the photos that Sarah Roesnik took of unfinished greek construction

Also just out, new issue of KAPUT online magazine, where I wrote a review of the SuperNature exhibition, curated by Andreas Melas and Rallou Panayiotou. 

The review, soon in English, extends from the space of the gallery, and wanders around the constantly shifting slightly scary urban landscape of downtown Athens. www.kaput.gr

Modelos para Armar: Scenes from a Construction

Modelos para Armar is the title of the summer exhibition at MUSAC, in Leon. The exhibition will present sections of MUSAC's Latinamerican collection, curated by Agustin Perez Rubio (Director), Maria-Ines Rodriguez (Chief Curator) and Octavio Zaya (Curator at Large). Angelidakis studio is in change of the space for the exhibition, which, if you follow our work, you might have noticed is an ongoing project of making architecture with exhibition walls. For Modelos, we came up with a series of spaces that relate to statial conditions in Latinamerican architecture and urbanity. Monumental modernity, jungles, favelas and mayan ruins sometimes wrap themselves around specific works, while other times act as connectors and separators between curatorial clusters.

This door will lead to a dark space of precious, deadly objects.

The ellipse will contain images of violence

A jungle of columns

MIR+ Blackberry next to a reading room

one of the tallest exhibition spaces in Europe, will contain the night.

A Sculptural Exchange at Kunsthalle Athena

Sculptural Exchange is a project for Kunsthalle Athena - The Bar

 It  is an agreement with a local furniture yard,

around the corner from K.A.

 They lent me furniture so I could make an assemblage at the space, and also to facilitate the various videos and other works that needed seats, and in exchange I sell the furniture, at the prices specified by Mrs Niki, owner of the yeard. She gets all the proceeds, while KA gets to use the furniture for a few days.

Chair, sold for 30 euros